Dabbler hero Sid Waddell hasn't been well lately. Here's Brit's tribute to the great commentator, one of a few archive posts we'll be running over the holiday period... For years hence there will be gnarled Geordies huddled over schooners of broon and Red Bull, claiming they were there in the auditorium ... Read More...
Worth Repeating
Today's regular Sunday repeat is our 6 Clicks feature as completed by a literary blogger who writes from America's heartland. In Anthony Burgess’ short story The Endless Voyager, a businessman throws away his passport and wallet mid-transit and, unable to enter any country, spends the rest of his life shuttling from ... Read More...
Summer is over and September is here again. Here's another chance to read Worm's exploration of how this month has provided an often melancholy inspiration to artists. By all these lovely tokens September days are here With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer. September is an interesting and unsettling month, and a ... Read More...
From the archives, a guest post on a great Romanian diva from the remarkable blogger Gadjo Dilo... Mr. Gaw has kindly offered me the chance to contribute to this estimable blog. I had my own - now suspended due to pressure of work – where I liked to post about cultural life here ... Read More...
Continuing our summer series of repeats, here's Dabbler editor Brit's 1p Review of a very unusual memoir, in which more is left unsaid than actually written... TH White, author of the strange and indelible Arthurian sequence The Once and Future King, is also the author of a strange and indelible memoir ... Read More...
About time we had some Elberry on this blog, isn't it? From the September 2010 archives, here he is dissecting a scene from Goodfellas... The last flawlessly great film of Robert de Niro's career. Jimmy Conway, the tough Irish hood, the murderer and hijacker and all round nice guy. Everyone likes Jimmy. ... Read More...
Continuing both our season of holiday repeats and this month's nostalgia theme, here's a lovely little Dabbler Country post from Nige, which originally appeared in September 2010... Yesterday, in Holland Park, I saw a boy in a tree. He was sitting contentedly at the top of a decent-sized ornamental maple, while ... Read More...
From the August 2010 archives, Jon Hotten appreciates a brilliant but almost forgotten gonzo writer... No-one’s ever written a perfect book have they? Jonathan Rendall hasn’t, but he’s written a couple of very good ones, and in improbable circumstances too. His first, a boxing memoir called This Bloody Mary Is The ... Read More...
From the archives, Gaw examines a countryside classic... I've been reading Oliver Rackham's The History of the Countryside, a book full of ideas, observations and interesting facts. It's a great myth-buster and is permeated by a sceptical curiosity that's never shy of actually visiting a patch of land if that's what's ... Read More...
This Repeat about Michael Wharton's A Dubious Codicil, from August 2010, seems an appropriate companion piece to James Hamilton's discourse on nostalgia, since its concluding sentence is perhaps the purest expression of misguided British nostalgia I've ever written... A Dubious Codicil is the second part of Michael ‘Peter Simple’ Wharton’s autobiography. You can buy it ... Read More...
